So bad it's good.

Emp · 04 January, 2011, 11:46:50 PM

There are three types of bad movie:

GRADE 1 : So bad that you have to stop watching it for the sake of your sanity, or so that your loved ones will talk to you in the morning.
This covers films that are shot at night in a coal mine with black lights and films with plot holes so big you could build a house in 'em

Grade 2 :These are movies that although shite and making you swear you will never watch them again,keep you watching to the end. Just to see how shite it can get.
I offer Stevie Segals "KillSwitch" as a prime example. I wasn't especting much but this delivered less.I mean fight scenes with ropey camera work cus the mans getting old, sliced with the same close up shot of Stevie in which he looks like he's having a dump.And to end it all his wife is like 23 with two kids!! (suppose thats the joys of writing your own scrpt)

Grade 3 : The guilty pleasure we all have.....the film so shit its good. These are usually films that happen by accident, if they try to be Grade 3 they usually end as Grade 2.

SmallBlueThing · 11 January, 2011, 08:15:46 PM

A while ago i was talking about having worked on several films, at the script and post production stages. A producer, who shall remain nameless, told me it was his/her wish that our 'product' be 'cult movies', which he/she defined as 'movies that are just so bad, they're great'.
After i'd died inside, and tried to make him/her see sense and obviously failed (i was young and unused to dealing with people for whom the mere fact they worked 'in the industry' gave them the excuse to be arseholes) i did point out that the only way you could make a 'cult' was accidentally, and that you had to try to do the best you could, given the limits of budget or talent. He/she didnt agree. 'Sci fi and horror fans love shit movies, we want to give them to them', was the response.
SBT

Jared Katooie · 11 January, 2011, 09:22:51 PM

Here's another classic for us sci-fi fans. I love this film.

2019 - After the fall of New York

Colin Zeal · 12 January, 2011, 11:18:23 AM

I love watching dreadful films regardless of the genre. My favourite bad film at present is The Guardian. Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher as Coastguard rescue swimmers? There was never any chance of it being a load of tosh or of me not watching it more times than can be healthy.

Adrian Bamforth · 12 January, 2011, 01:35:58 PM

Perhaps too tongue-in-cheek to mention but this movie staring the lovely Emily "Bouff" Booth really isn't a famous as it should be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sLdESvl8t4

Greg M. · 12 January, 2011, 01:41:51 PM

If the late, great David Warbeck's in it, then it must be worth watching on some level.

SmallBlueThing · 12 January, 2011, 04:35:55 PM

Quote from: Adrian Bamforth on 12 January, 2011, 01:35:58 PM
Perhaps too tongue-in-cheek to mention but this movie staring the lovely Emily "Bouff" Booth really isn't a famous as it should be:

I am very pleased to report that I've had the pleasure of having evenings out with both the sexy ladies on that cast list!

SBT

HdE · 12 January, 2011, 04:45:03 PM

Bouff! Rowr!

Adrian Bamforth · 29 January, 2011, 10:57:34 AM

I am very pleased to report that I've had the pleasure of having evenings out with both the sexy ladies on that cast list!

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The Bouff and Eileen Daly? You git! I hope you didn't get any.

Keef Monkey · 29 January, 2011, 11:37:09 AM

Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 12 January, 2011, 04:35:55 PM
Quote from: Adrian Bamforth on 12 January, 2011, 01:35:58 PM
Perhaps too tongue-in-cheek to mention but this movie staring the lovely Emily "Bouff" Booth really isn't a famous as it should be:

I am very pleased to report that I've had the pleasure of having evenings out with both the sexy ladies on that cast list!

SBT

Jealousy, thy name is Keef. A big Bouff fan, and the reaction from my girlfriend when she got me the Video Nasties boxset for xmas and I popped it in (steady) to see Emily Booth on all fours on the bloody dvd menu was priceless. It's like she's her arch nemesis or something. For the record I had no idea Booth was even involved in it, not that the missus will believe that.

Woolly · 29 January, 2011, 02:41:51 PM

If you get a chance, try and see 'Best Worst Movie', a documentary about the enduring appeal of Troll 2. It's cracking stuff, which manages to track down almost the entire cast as well as the director, and gives a wonderful insight to the american cult fims market.

Also, this little beauty...

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Dead-Riot-Unrated-Collectors/dp/B000CEV3RI

I had the honour of watching this with an introduction and Q&A session with Tony Todd, awesome stuff!

SmallBlueThing · 29 January, 2011, 06:58:50 PM

I should salve your jealousy a little: my wife taught emily booth how to shake her thang for a burlesque tv show, and she came along to a few of our Burlesk! nights in hastings, where she was at my table for the night. She's okay. As for ms daley- her band were on the same bill as my wife at a club in london, so i did some schmoozing.
SBT